Academic work : the changing labour process in higher education
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Academic work : the changing labour process in higher education
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What is happening to the work of academics worldwide? This book calls in the evidence (and the arguments) internationally on the way in which academic labour is being reconstructed, transformed, and reorganized in response to the global restructuring of capitalism. What is occurring is that not only are new sets of social relationships being forged in the workplace of academia, but new and complex paradoxes, dilemmas and contradictions are emerging. In all of this it is clear that there has been a major shift from indirect forms of control, to more ideological forms that work through the discourse of the corporatist notions of quality, excellence, outputs, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Table of Contents
Markets in higher education
states and economies and the changing labour process of academics
Canadian universities and the impact of austerity on the academic workplace
goalsetting, domestication and academia
higher education and the state - the irony of Fordism in American universities
the culture of assessment
entrepreneurial science and the intellectual property in Australian universities
the university of life PLC
award restructuring for academics in the age of economic rationalism
beyond the multiversity
higher education as form of labour market reform
the gendered management of equity-oriented change
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